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Issue #25

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Kevin Veale

Geoffrey Maloney

Jessica Elizabeth

Ayne Terceiria

Thomas Canfield

Constance Cooper

Dirk Flinthart

Deby Fredericks

Greg Beatty

Sarah L. Edwards

Christopher Johnstone

ORIGINAL FICTION BY:

Editorial

…Nicole R Murphy

Greetings and Salutations, and welcome to Issue 25. The quarter century. The

Silver Jubilee.

This really is a great achievement for Andromeda Spaceways. I can
remember when, as a member of the Eidolist many years ago, I saw the initial
discussion of the need for a pulp magazine, and the suggestion of the name
Andromeda Spaceways Inlight Magazine. It was Conlux 1, in 2004, that I
realised that ASIM had gone from a discussion on the mailing list to reality.

And here we are, Issue 25. Yay us! It’s a big reward for the group of guys and
gals who have sweated (and sometimes cursed) over ASIM, that we’ve gotten to
this milestone.

Over the years, ASIM has become renowned for publishing the quirky, the
offbeat, the sensitive and the downright readable. And Issue 25 includes all that
and more.

I was really happy to finally be let loose on the fabled Slushpool™ and
choose my stories, and I want to thank the authors for all being so willing to
work with us and be part of the ASIM journey. I also want to thank Richard
Bartrop for his fantastic cover. It’s fitting that the cover of the 25thissue features
something so pulpy!

So what have I got for you? Hmmm… There’s another fantastic Constance
Cooper poem, and I’m proud to have the second Red Priest story from Dirk
Flintart, The Red Priest’s Vigil (the first, published in Issue 18, was nominated
for a Ditmar award and made the Year’s Best collection for 2005). Greg Beatty
gives us a story that’s short, sharp and will make you queasy. Ayne Terceira
takes us to the logical conclusion of political correctness and inclusivity, Sarah
Edwards shows us what happens when a girl follows her dreams and Geoff
Maloney tells us why we should listen to our mother when she tells us we
should eat our dinner because there are starving children in Africa. Christopher
Johnstone outwits a troll, Deby Fredericks introduces us to the chilling

Editorial

Bonewood Forest, Thomas Canield will ensure you scrub your kitchen top to
toe, and see if you can’t pick the classic tale at the root of Kevin Veale’s The
Patternspinner.

Along with terrific non-fiction, including a review of Conlux 3, and reviews of
what you should be reading, this is another fantastic issue of ASIM.

So go ahead, find yourself a quiet corner, with whatever your favourite drink is,
and enjoy!

Nicole R Murphy

Editor, issue 25

PS I promised I would do it, so I am: when you’ve finished reading Issue 25,

go and read my other great project, The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and
Strangers. Published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, and available at
http://www.austspeculativeiction.com.au.

Correction:
Last issue, we published S Hutson Blunt’s Story, “The
coming of the Space Crawl”, which we inadvertently
referred to as “The Coming of the Space Craw”.
We apologise to S Hutson Blount for the error.